Mystical Sichuan Sampler – 7 Days

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• Driving Holiday Overview
• Mystical Sichuan Itinerary
• Driving Tour Dates
• What's Included
• What's not Included
• Prices and Options
• Contact Us

Driving Holiday Overview

The On the Road in China 7-Day Mystical Sichuan Sampler is a good introduction to this glorious region of China.  This itinerary will give you a first taste of nearly everything this region has to offer: spectacular mountains and nature parks, exciting mountain roads, splendid highways, Tibetan people and their charming dwellings, Sichuan and Tibetan cuisine, stupas and prayer flags, all set in the natural habitat of the Giant Pandas.  Of course, you’ll also get to “meet” some pandas….

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If you really can’t afford seven days, try our 5-Day sampler. On the other hand, if you can afford just over a week, then go for our On the Road in Shangri-La 12-Day journey for a real immersion into the mystical land James Hilton’s novel Lost Horizon.

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Mystical Sichuan Itinerary

The journey starts and ends in Chengdu. It takes place entirely in Sichuan province. After obtaining your Chinese driving license, you will drive west, first on a fantastic highway, then for a day-and-a-half along China’s fabled G318 – the longest national highway stretching from Shanghai in East to the Himalaya base camp in the China's South West. On driving day two, you soon turn north to pass through the Tagong grasslands, then East across a 4,000m mountain pass to the day’s destination. On driving day 3, you continue further East to reach the Four Sisters Nature Park.  The following day you trek into this magnificent park.  On the last day you visit the Wolong Panda Reserve on the way back to Chengdu.

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Driving Tour Dates

We will offer the Mystical Sichuan Sampler – 7 Days as follows:

For other dates or if you want to organise your own group, please be in touch (see Contact us).

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What’s included

This tour includes the following:

• Arrangement and fees for Chinese driving license application.
• Hotel rooms for all 7 nights.
• An SUV/4x4 rental car for all five driving days, including car insurance, of course.
• A state-of-the-art satellite navigation system with pre-programmed route for the journey. 
• Lunches and dinners – a culinary journey of discovery (in local restaurants where possible, otherwise in hotels; on some days picnics for lunch).  For dinners, feel free to choose any kind of drink, even alcoholic drinks. It is all on us, but if you drink, please drink in moderation!
• Breakfast at the hotel every day which will include good coffee (from a plunge coffee maker), a choice of cereals, milk, soya bean milk, hard-boiled eggs and, of course, local fare.
• Entrance fees for all jointly attended activities.  (See itinerary above.)
• Toll fees for all roads along the itinerary.
• Petrol for your car.
• On the Road Home-Away-from-Home Kit and Goodies including … wet towels, anti-bacterial hand wash and basic toiletries, daily picnic basket containing fresh fruit, fruit juice, 1-litre bottle of water, a mixture of overseas and local sweets and nibbles.
• We also provide other essentials such as walky-talkies, thermos flasks, and oxygen bottles.
• A lead car that prepares the destination each day and will carry necessities, including a first-aid kit.
• Pre-departure traveller information pack.
• 24-hour medical assistance, evacuation and repatriation emergency service provided by International SOS.

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What’s not included

The price for the journey includes everything except your airfare to and from Chengdu and any purchases for gifts and souvenirs you choose to make.  

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Prices and Options

We have a standard price for a couple that assumes two people sharing a car and hotel rooms.  If you book by the 'Early Bird Booking' date, we offer a 5% discount off the standard price of the basic tour price.  Please refer to our Standard Price List.

We can offer several options to suit your needs:

• We can accommodate many different groupings.  In particular, if you are on your own and would like to join, don't worry.   We will do our best to find someone (1 or 2 others) whom you can join.
• Our standard car is a manual gear-shift, but we will endeavour to get you an automatic, if you prefer.
• If you'd really like join one of our driving tours, but would rather not drive the whole way (or not drive at all), we can also provide you a driver.
• And if you would want go get even more out of the journey, how about your own personal translator and guide?   We can arrange this, too.

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